4.08.2009

Contest Announcement!

My sense of humor is a burden at times. Be that as it may, I am starting a new contest. The contest rules are simple - Have some fun and twist one of the most beloved and pure icons of childhood innocence - i.e., name the best new color for a crayon! Or idea for a boxed set. The contest will run for 30 days and you may submit as many as you can muster. I will post a poll widget with the best submissions so that votes can be cast. To start things off, here's a nostalgic little number that I came up with...

-------------------------------------------------------------------Or how about this gift set that might appeal to a special homeschooler living 50 miles north of Coeur d'Alene...

Let the games begin!

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With Compliments to Stacy's Jamaican Jade, this rendition of her entry has been created. Good early effort.

---------------------------------------------------Once again showing how real life is often more absurd than fantasy, Crayola themselves have an entry that I think deserves consideration. Their website says of this "Multicultural Pack";

Children love to draw people. Crayola Multicultural Crayons include an assortment of skin tones that come in just about all the colours that people do. Crayon colours are: black, sepia, peach, apricot, white, tan, mahogany, and burnt sienna.

Yes children do, but looking at the pure white crayon I can't help but think that kids rarely draw people lacking any skin tone at all...---------------------------------------------------------Pliny has his own ideas about multicultural crayons. Here's some examples...

Important safety tip, thanks Egon. This color is a fooler. They report on the box lid that it's in the set, but it's never there when you open the box. Except for the special Nicolo Pollari edition available from the White House gift shop but if you peel back the wrappr it's just lemon yellow....

Also: peach colored crayon labeled "nice"? Niiiice."---------------------Actually it's labeled Nice, as in France, but I see the confusion. It's part of my multicultural pack. ----------------------------------

"Can't believe they included actual white as a color for a "multicultural pack". Is that the color we're supposed to use for super-albinos or something?"----------I thought that one was pretty amusing as well, for the exact same reason. It could also be to appease the Klan, who knows what the marketing department was thinking, or not. It was the reason that i thought they deserved to be included in the contest. Their perverse irony is probably better than mine. Come to think of it, marketing is a synonym for perverse irony, isn't it?

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